Summary of major revisions made to emergency plan of action
This update is seeking a 6 months’ timeframe extension until the end of 2016 to take into account anticipated income and give enough time to implement related activities.
A. Situation analysis
Description of the disaster
Clashes between Government forces and armed movements in Darfur Region of Sudan has intensified in recent years severely impacting civilians. Inter-tribal tensions continued to spill over into clashes, causing civilian displacements and disruption of basic services. Access to clash-torn areas remains largely restricted . Continued and sustained
clashes in 2014 and 2015 , witnessed new displacements in the region and as a result an increase in the humanitarian needs.
Clashes in Darfur due to inter-tribal fighting continued throughout 2015, making the conflict in the region more widespread and unpredictable. Towards the end of the year, increased clashes between farmers and herdsmen were reported due to grazing lands. Farmers in both North and South Darfur were affected by the attacks and the destruction of their farms by livestock herders’. Lack of rain or shortage of rainfall has also been reported to be affecting agriculture in the area.
At the end of 2014, some 3.1 million people in Sudan were internally displaced, majority in Darfur. A further 0.7 million people were refugees displaced from their country of origin or South Sudanese who are unable to move to South Sudan . Since January 2015, up to 224,000 people have been displaced from their homes by conflict in Darfur. About 100,000 of them are internally displaced persons (IDPs), while 66,000 live in areas where humanitarian organisations have limited or no access (Jebel Marra area of Darfur). About 58,000 of the people who were displaced this year have returned to their area of origin. Immediate needs of the displaced identified according to inter-agency assessments are food, emergency shelter, household supplies, water, sanitation, health, education and protection services.
According to the Ministry of Health (MoH), as of 11 December 2015, a total of 571 suspected dengue fever cases, including 133 deaths, were reported in Sudan since the outbreak started. Darfur states were the most affected,
Kassala and Kordofan being the other regions affected. Earlier during the year, measles outbreak was also declared in the country. The outbreak started in late December 2014 and affected Kassala and Gedaref States by January 2015. In April, the outbreak was reported in Sennar, the Red Sea, and West, East, and North Darfur states. Fifty two (52) localities in South, North, East and Central Darfur were affected. Darfur states were among the worst affected due to Measles , dengue fever outbreak and malaria during the second half of the year in Sudan.
On 20 May 2015, IFRC launched an Emergency Appeal (EA), which sought 3,934,859 Swiss franc to support Sudan Red Crescent Society (SRCS) address emergency health, hygiene promotion, water and sanitation, emergency shelter including basic household items, needs of 389,930 people in the Darfur region, for a period of 12 months. The Federation released 178,890 Swiss franc from the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) as a “startup” loan to the EA, as well as goods in kind, which had been prepositioned in-country following the MDRSS021 Floods operation in 2014/15.
The Federation, on behalf of the Sudan Red Crescent Society would like to extend many thanks to the American Red Cross, Japanese Red Cross, Saudi Red Crescent Society, Swedish Red Cross and Canadian Red Cross, for their generous financial and in kind contribution toward this operation. A total of 3,025 jerry cans from American Red Cross and 2,500 NFI kits from IFRC stocks were made available for the response. Unfortunately, financial coverage for the International Emergency Plan of Action Appeal remains low at around 14%, mostly due to the protracted nature of the emergency. This Operations Update provides indication of the intention to revise the MDRSD022 EA based on the priorities within the Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA), current resources available and anticipated income over the remainder of the timeframe of the operation while at the same time extending the timeframe to 31 December, 2016.